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PUBLIC EVENTS 2013 ~ 2014

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013 

Public Safety, Security and Surveillance in the Global City: Views from Tokyo

David Murakami-Wood, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Queen's University and holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Surveillance Studies

18:30-20:00, Mar.17 (Mon), 2014

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

No registration necessary

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ICC workshop organized by Research Unit "Japanese Literature in Motion."

Trajectories of ‘Japanese’ Texts in the Early Twentieth Century

13:00-17:30, Mar.8 (Sat), 2014

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

Social Fragmentation and Sustainability in Palestinian Communities: Resilience and Uncertainty in Everyday Life

Joshua Rickard, Ph.D. in social anthropology from the University of Kent at Canterbury

18:30-20:00, Mar.3 (Mon), 2014

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

Emotions: Are They the Key to Culture?

James M. Jasper, Graduate Center of the City University of New York

17:30-19:00, Jan. 14 (Tue), 2014

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

"It's Time to Give back!": Competitive Charity in Today's Global Yoga

Anne Koch, Cultural Study of Religion, University of Munich

17:30-19:00, Jan. 9 (Thu), 2014

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice

Anne Koch, Cultural Study of Religion, University of Munich

18:30-20:00, Dec. 13 (Fri), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

Fatherhood and Consumption: An Exploratory Study of Soon-to-be Fathers in Japan

Florian Kohlbacher, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo

18:00-19:30, Dec. 9 (Mon), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

Takeshima and Shimane Prefecture

Alexander Bukh, Senior Lecturer, Victoria University, Wellington

17:30-19:00, Dec. 5 (Thu), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

Twenty-One Haiku Lessons from The Book of Tea

Michael Dylan Welch, Vice president of the Haiku Society of America

17:30-19:00, Dec. 2 (Mon), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

From Private to Public: Portrait Photography and Changing Social Mores in Late Meiji Japan

Karen M. Fraser, Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Art History, Santa Clara University, ICC Visiting Fellow

18:30-20:00, Nov.25 (Mon), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

Hard-fisted Piety: Christian militias in the Minahasa

Laurens Bakker, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies
Institute of Sociology of Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

17:15-18:45, Nov.19 (Tue), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

Intercultural Theatre and Acting in a Global Age: an alternative view

Phillip Zarrilli, Founding Artistic Director of The Llanarth Group
Professor of Performance Practice in the Drama Department at Exeter University

18:00-19:30, Nov.15 (Fri), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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ICC Lecture organized by ICC Research Unit Postcolonial Asian Cities

Angry Ghosts:

1900's Boxer Crisis as Global History

Jeff Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History, U.C. Irvine

17:30-19:00, Oct.31 (Thu), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

"Brazil in the Global Crisis Context"

José Marcos Domingues, Professor of Law, Rio de Janeiro State University

17:15-18:45, Oct.14 (Mon), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Screening of a film in affiliation with CIEE

"Girl Rising"

The message is simple: educate girls and you will change the world

17:15-, Oct. 11 (Fri), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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ICC Lecture in cooperation with the Sasakawa Peace Foundation and the NPO “DSIA (Durable Social Innovation Alliance)”

Microfinance and BOP in India:The Importance for Indian Inclusive Development and Internship Opportunities for Japanese Students

Mr. Prem Das Rai,
Member of Parliament in the 15th L
ok Sabha (elected directly by people)
Lower House of Indian Parliament (representing Sikkim State)

13:30-15:00, September 9 (Mon), 2013

Sophia University, Building 12, 2F, Rm 202
Language: English

For those who are interested in attending the presentation, please send your name, affiliation and status to seminar@dsia.or.jp

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

“Realists” versus “Idealists”:

Ideological Struggles in Japan's Intellectual Field of the 1960s in the Light of the Debate on Sartre's "A Plea for Intellectuals"

Simone Müller, University of Zurich

17:00-19:00, July 11 (Thu), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

Beyond ‘the West’ and ‘the East: Occidentalism, Orientalism, and Self-Orientalism in Italy-Japan Relations

Toshio MIYAKE, Marie Curie Researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, ICC Visiting Fellow

17:30-19:00, July 5 (Fri), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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A Symposium organized by ICC 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Unit

Commemoration of 3.11 (Part Two)

Art of 3.11 Commemoration

July 1 (Mon), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301

Program: PDF
Language: English

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A Symposium organized by ICC 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Unit

Commemoration of 3.11 (Part One)

Ethnographies of Commemoration

June 28 (Fri), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301

Program: PDF
Language: English

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ICC Lecture organized by ICC 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Unit

Imaging Disaster:

Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923

Gennifer Weisenfeld, Professor of Modern Japanese Art History and Visual Culture, Duke University

18:00-19:30, June 26 (Wed), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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A Symposium organized by ICC Global Food Research Unit

Travelling Cuisines: Culinary Politics and Transnational Foodways in and out of Asia

9:00-18:00, June 22 (Sat), 2013

Sophia University, Library Building 9F, Rm 911
Program: Click here (PDF)

Language: English

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A Symposium organized by ICC Network Studies Research Unit

Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan

10:00-17:45, June 8 (Fri), 2013

Sophia University, Building 12, 1F, Rm 102

Program (Bilingual) PDF
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

Human Security Studies: Building a More Humane World

Sorpong Peou, PProfessor and Chair, Department of Politics, University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

17:30-19:00, May 27 (Mon), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

Mothers, Daughters and Sex:

Negotiating young women’s sexuality in British and Hong Kong families

Stevi Jackson, Professor of Women’s Studies and Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of York, UK

17:30-19:00, May 21 (Tue), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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ICC Lecture organized by ICC Global Food Research Unit

How Tokyo Invented Sushi

Jordan Sand, Associate Professor of Japanese History and Culture, Georgetown University

18:00-19:30, May 10 (Fri), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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ICC Lecture organized by ICC Global Food Research Unit

After Exile:

Cuban Diaspora, Revolutionary Nostalgia and Global Tourism

Ruth Behar, Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan

18:30-20:00, April 19 (Fri), 2013

Sophia University, Library, 9F, Rm 912
Language: English

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